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All things considered - yes, it is. But there are numerous downsides. First off is that rent and/or house prices are sky high in the main centres. Auckland is

All things considered - yes, it is. But there are numerous downsides. First off is that rent and/or house prices are sky high in the main centres. Auckland is really very bad but Wellington is catching up quickly. Wellington is quite heavy on .net due to the government and Xero. For smaller businesses there's lots of rails still. Weta is not a big company and getting a job there is a big ask unless you're already in the VFX industry. In general, NZ likes to think of itself as being innovative but isn't. Our startup 'scene' and funders are extremely conservative. But it's a good place. Most devs know pretty much what they're doing; there appears to be an active contract scene particularly for C# and Java; and you get to live in New Zealand :)

moving2nz 8y ago
Yeah I only found out today that Xero was a .NET shop, actually that was a bit disappointing. Same for TradeMe. So was hoping there was a startup scene using something more interesting, Python or even Go perhaps. I actually don't mind Java at all, perhaps Java skills are better to focus on then in terms of it being more useful in moving to New Zealand :)
- navs 8y ago
  Vend [1] and Movio [2] are two companies I know of that use Go. I know people in both companies and they've got a friendly culture. I believe Centrality (blockchain company) and Soul Machines use Python. You'll see a lot more NodeJS in the startups. Someone from Xero might be able to correct me here, but I've heard from friends at Xero that they're exploring Rust atm. [1] https://www.vendhq.com/ https://www.vendhq.com/ [2] https://movio.co/ https://movio.co/ [3] https://centrality.ai/ https://centrality.ai/ [4] https://www.soulmachines.com/ https://www.soulmachines.com/
  - moving2nz 8y ago
    Thanks for this, I need to reconsider Auckland then as a final destination as the companies there in general look much more interesting than in Wellington.

moving2nz 8y ago

Yeah I only found out today that Xero was a .NET shop, actually that was a bit disappointing. Same for TradeMe. So was hoping there was a startup scene using something more interesting, Python or even Go perhaps. I actually don't mind Java at all, perhaps Java skills are better to focus on then in terms of it being more useful in moving to New Zealand :)

navs 8y ago
Vend [1] and Movio [2] are two companies I know of that use Go. I know people in both companies and they've got a friendly culture. I believe Centrality (blockchain company) and Soul Machines use Python. You'll see a lot more NodeJS in the startups. Someone from Xero might be able to correct me here, but I've heard from friends at Xero that they're exploring Rust atm. [1] https://www.vendhq.com/ https://www.vendhq.com/ [2] https://movio.co/ https://movio.co/ [3] https://centrality.ai/ https://centrality.ai/ [4] https://www.soulmachines.com/ https://www.soulmachines.com/
- moving2nz 8y ago
  Thanks for this, I need to reconsider Auckland then as a final destination as the companies there in general look much more interesting than in Wellington.